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US coalition: 100 militants killed in Afghanistan
Posted on Aug 28, 2008 - 8:46 am
AP - The U.S.-led coalition says its forces have killed more than 100 militants in four days of fighting in southern Afghanistan.
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US Suez shooting probe blames ship's wrong arrival time
Posted on Aug 28, 2008 - 8:08 am - AFP
AFP - A US probe into the shooting of an Egyptian man by a US Navy chartered boat near the Suez Canal in March said Thursday that the ship's arrival at the wrong time was a "significant factor" in the killing.
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U.S., Europe and Japan planned dollar rescue: report
Posted on Aug 28, 2008 - 4:36 am - Reuters
Reuters - The United States, Europe and Japan planned joint intervention to rescue the dollar when it was plunging in March at the time U.S. investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed, the Nikkei business newspaper reported.
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Up close and personal Emin show draws mixed reviews
Posted on Aug 28, 2008 - 2:20 am - AFP
AFP - The first retrospective of work by Tracey Emin, the enfant terrible artist who has made a career out of intimate personal details including her own unmade bed, has opened to mixed reviews.
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US Army continues Iraq murder conspiracy hearing
Posted on Aug 27, 2008 - 8:33 pm - AP
AP - A military panel took evidence Wednesday in a hearing aimed at determining whether two U.S. soldiers should face a court-martial in the deaths of four Iraqi men last year.
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US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,148
Posted on Aug 27, 2008 - 6:38 pm - AP
AP - As of Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008, at least 4,148 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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UN: 1 more year for peacekeepers in Lebanon
Posted on Aug 27, 2008 - 4:42 pm - AP
AP - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to keep a peacekeeping force in Lebanon for another year, calling for stepped-up efforts to achieve a permanent cease-fire and long-term resolution of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.
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UN climate talks make headway on emission limits
Posted on Aug 27, 2008 - 11:34 am - AP
AP - Talks on a new global warming agreement have begun to resolve some major sticking points, the U.N. climate chief said Wednesday, sounding a promising note after months of sluggish negotiations often marked by confrontation among industrial and developing countries.
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US-Russian deal on nuclear access may be shelved
Posted on Aug 27, 2008 - 11:15 am - AP
AP - A key civil nuclear agreement between Russia and the U.S. looks likely to be shelved until next year at the earliest amid mounting tensions over the fate of Georgia's breakaway republics.
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US shrugs off North Korean disablement halt
Posted on Aug 27, 2008 - 10:17 am - AP
AP - The United States is shrugging off North Korea's threat to backtrack on an agreement to dismantle its nuclear program.
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US ship carrying aid docks at Georgian port
Posted on Aug 27, 2008 - 4:49 am - AP
AP - A U.S. military ship carrying humanitarian aid docked at the Georgian Black Sea port of Batumi on Wednesday, avoiding the port of Poti, which is still controlled by Russian forces.
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UN urges South Asia to do more to stop child trafficking
Posted on Aug 27, 2008 - 4:30 am - AFP
AFP - Children in South Asia need stronger legal protection from trafficking, the United Nations said in a report released in Nepal on Wednesday.
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US ship docks at Georgian port
Posted on Aug 27, 2008 - 3:52 am - AP
AP - A U.S. military ship on Wednesday docked at the Georgian port of Batumi to bring humanitarian aid following a devastating war with Russia earlier this month.
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US cancels plan to send military ship to Poti
Posted on Aug 27, 2008 - 12:38 am - AP
AP - The United States has canceled plans to try to dock a military ship carrying humanitarian aid in the Georgian port of Poti, where Russian forces are posted on the outskirts, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said Wednesday.
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US: Plan canceled to dock ship with aid in Georgia
Posted on Aug 27, 2008 - 12:00 am - AP
AP - A U.S. Embassy spokesman says plans have been canceled to try to dock a military ship carrying humanitarian aid in the Georgian port of Poti.
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US accuses North Korea of violating nuclear accord
Posted on Aug 26, 2008 - 9:06 pm - AFP
AFP - The United States accused North Korea Tuesday of violating a six-nation nuclear accord and retained it on a terror blacklist, after the hardline communist state defiantly suspended disabling its atomic plants.
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UN says opium cultivation drops in Afghanistan
Posted on Aug 26, 2008 - 3:00 pm - AP
AP - Drought and anti-drug campaigns helped slash Afghanistan's opium poppy cultivation by 19 percent this year compared to 2007, but Taliban militants could still derive up to $70 million from the harvest, the U.N. anti-drug chief said Tuesday.
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UN accuses US-led troops in deaths of Afghans
Posted on Aug 26, 2008 - 2:41 pm - AP
AP - In a stark warning to U.S. forces, the Afghan government said it will try to regulate the presence of U.S. troops and their use of airstrikes, while the U.N. on Tuesday announced that "convincing evidence" exists that an American-led operation killed 90 civilians.
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UN urges phasing out of energy subsidies
Posted on Aug 26, 2008 - 2:02 pm - AP
AP - A new U.N. report urges countries to phase out energy subsidies, saying they often waste money, do not always help the poor and are bad for the environment.
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US accuses NKorea of violating six-nation nuclear accord
Posted on Aug 26, 2008 - 12:46 pm - AFP
AFP - The United States accused North Korea Tuesday of violating a six-nation accord aimed at ending its nuclear drive after the hardline communist state stopped disabling its atomic plants.
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US diplomat in Pakistan escapes gun attack
Posted on Aug 26, 2008 - 11:48 am - AP
AP - Gunmen opened fire on the top U.S. diplomat in northwestern Pakistan early Tuesday as she left for work in her armored vehicle, forcing her driver to slam into reverse and retreat to the shelter of her residential compound. No one was killed in the attack.
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UN: Opium cultivation drops in Afghanistan
Posted on Aug 26, 2008 - 9:33 am - AP
AP - The U.N.'s anti-drug office says opium poppy production in Afghanistan was down 19 percent this year compared to 2007 due to successful campaigns in the north and east though fields in the south remain awash in the heroin-producing crop.
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